CVE-2015-3991

Publication date 1 June 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

strongSwan 5.2.2 and 5.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
strongswan 15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

5.2.2+ only

Patch details

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Package Patch details
strongswan

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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